"From a Fifth Avenue Bus," and a feature from month
to month is the department known as "Both Sides of Fifth Avenue." In the
stretch between the Square and Eleventh Street, it points out as
residences of particular interest those of Paul Dana, No. 1, George T.
Bestle, No. 3, F. Spencer Witherbee, No. 4, and Lispenard Stewart, No.
6; all below Eighth Street. Then, between Eighth and Ninth, Pierre Mali,
No. 8, John C. Eames, No. 12, Miss Abigail Burt, No. 14, Dr. J. Milton
Mabbott, No. 17, Dr. Edward L. Partridge, No. 19, and Dr. Robert J. Kahn
(former Mark Twain home), No. 21. Between Ninth and Tenth, Charles De
Rham, No. 24, Mrs. George Ethridge, No. 27, Mrs. Peter F. Collier, No.
29, and Edwin W. Coggeshall, No. 30. On the next block, Frank B. Wiborg,
No. 40, Gen. Rush Hawkins, No. 42, Miss Elsie Borg, No. 43, Howard
Carter Dickinson, No. 45, Mrs. J.P. Cassidy, No. 49, and William W.
Thompkins, No. 68. Besides the private residences are mentioned the
Hotel Brevoort (the traditional name is used), the Berkeley at No. 20,
and the Church of the Ascension, at Tenth Street, one of the very first
of the Fifth Avenue churches, and the scene, on June 26, 1844, of the
marriage of President John Tyler and Miss Julia Gardiner, the first
marriage of a President of the United States during his term of office.
The church a block farther north, on the same side of the Avenue is the
First Presbyterian, dating from 1845, when the congregation moved uptown
from the earlier edifice on Wall Street, just east of New Street.

CHAPTER III

_A Knickerbocker Pepys_

A Knickerbocker Pepys--The Span of a Life--A Man of Many
Responsibilities--Storm and Stress--Political Protestations--Hone and
the Journalists--Contemporary Impressions of Bryant and Bennett--Hone
and the Men of Letters--The Ways of British Lions.

There is one kind of immortality that is not so much a matter of amount
and quality of achievement as of the particular period of achievement.
That, for example, of Samuel Pepys.

Pepys, living in the turbulent, densely populated London of our time,
and recording day by day the events coming under his observation, would
probably have his audience of posterity limited to a little circle of
venerating descendants who would certainly bore the neighbours. It is
quite easy to picture the members of that circle in the year 1998, or
2024. "Listen to what Grandpapa's Diary says of the awful Zeppelin raids
of February, 1917," or, "